Kurdistan oil export delay "initiative" Barzani at the request of Baghdad

Thursday, April 1 / April 2014 11:36



Twilight News / The Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Tuesday, that the province will not export the amount of oil proposed by the province as of the first day of the month at the request of the Federal Ministry of Oil for the existence of acts of maintenance and renewal of the tube carrier oil from Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

According to a ministry statement reported "Twilight News", the head of the provincial government Naچervan Barzani had announced in March 20 of last gesture of goodwill to make a contribution to the export of 100 000 barrels of oil per day from the first of April to give the ongoing negotiations with Baghdad maximum chance of success.

The statement noted that since the announcement initiative, the Kurdistan Regional Government has cooperated closely with the senior officials of the Federal Ministry of Oil in Baghdad and the North Oil Company (NOC) in Kirkuk, to start the process of exporting oil.

He added that as a result, it was agreed on practical measures to be able to export the amount offered by the province.

However, the statement that due to the ongoing reform processes on the main export pipeline between Kirkuk and the Turkish port of Ceyhan, has announced that the Ministry of Oil and the NOC that they are not ready to receive any oil from the Kurdistan region at the present time.

The statement noted that it was agreed that as soon as the repair is completed the pipeline will KRG Balbdo in the export of the region committed to the initiative Barzani.

The issue of export of oil from the region of the contentious issues between Baghdad and Erbil, and caused the failure of Iraq to pass the budget for the current year after the rejection of the Kurdish side to the contents of paragraphs considers sanctions for the region.

Some of the paragraphs of the budget bind Arbil to export 400 000 barrels of oil per day, through the Iraqi oil marketing company "Sumo", otherwise the federal government will cut Akiemha of the region's share of the budget, which was rejected by a coalition of Kurdish blocs in parliament boycotted because of meetings of the Council to read and voted upon.

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